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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THE CORE is accompanied by a robust Study Guide designed to ensure students get the most out of the text as well as their classroom experience. The Learning Objectives, detailed Chapter Summaries, Chapter Outlines, and Key Terms with Definitions, which allow students to conduct an in-depth review of the material at their own pace, are followed by a series of multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and short response questions which students can then use to assess their knowledge.

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This text presents theories, policies, and issues of juvenile delinquency, and addresses the nature and extent of delinquency, causes of delinquent behavior, and environmental influences. Material on juvenile justice touches on areas including the use of pretrial detention, waiver to adult court, and restorative justice programs. Boxed readings look at controversial issues, new research, Supreme Court cases, and major initiatives and programs. Learning features include chapter summaries, discussion questions, and key terms, plus b&w photos. The author is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Larry J. Siegel was born in the Bronx, graduating from Christopher Columbus HS in 1964. While attending City College of New York in the 1960s, he was swept up in the social and political currents of the time. He became intrigued with the influence contemporary culture had on individual behavior: Did people shape society or did society shape people? He applied his interest in social forces and human behavior to the study of crime and justice. After graduating CCNY, he attended the newly opened program in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany, earning both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Siegel began his teaching career at Northeastern University—where he was a faculty member for nine years—and held teaching positions at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire before joining the faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Dr. Siegel has written extensively in the area of crime and justice, including books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, and criminal procedure. He is a court certified expert on police conduct and has testified in numerous legal cases.

Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam. His research interests focus on the prevention of crime and delinquency and evidence-based crime policy. Dr. Welsh has published extensively in these areas and is an author or editor of seven books. Born in Canada, he received his undergraduate and M.A. degrees at the University of Ottawa and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England.

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